Heavy Glow Sign to Kozmik Artifactz; New Album Coming Soon
Heavy fuzzing power trio Heavy Glow have signed a deal to release their latest album, 2014’s Pearls and Swine and Everything Fine (review here), on vinyl through Kozmik Artifactz. Seems like a good home for the three-piece, who’ve toured hard and will no doubt make European inroads working with the German imprint, their hook-based craftsmanship, energetic vibe and rich tonality having already found a solid following in the US (and apparently beyond). I wouldn’t be surprised if the band set to touring abroad before too long, particularly if, as the PR wire notes, they also have a new full-length in the works.
Info on all that follows here:
HEAVY GLOW (USA) sign to Kozmik Artifactz
New album soon, re-release of ‘Pearls & Swine and Everything Fine’ early summer 2016.
Some of rock’s greatest bands share an interesting quality: Soul. Cream, The Stooges, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Afghan Whigs and Vanilla Fudge all played glorious rock at concussive volumes but were also swinging to an unmistakable beat, filtering their thunderous bluster through a soul crooner’s sensibility. Heavy Glow qualifies for that exclusive roll call.
Pearls & Swine and Everything Fine is potent proof of Heavy Glow’s deep influences. Heavy Glow constructs Pearls & Swine on a foundation of fuzz-fueled hard rock, appointed with psychedelically-tinted blues and beautifully textured washes of Motown/Memphis soul. Simultaneously, a punkish verve cattle prods the retro rock vibe squarely into right now.
For this album Heavy Glow teamed with infinitely talented producers Michael Patterson (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Beck, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, P. Diddy, Notorious B.I.G., Duran Duran) and Nic Jodoin (BRMC, The Morlocks, Nightmare Air). Patterson and Jodoin’s concentrated methodology resulted in an album that is black hole heavy and as cohesive as the ’89 Detroit Pistons.
Pearls & Swine and Everything Fine (with brilliant cover design by renowned artist Darren Grealish, whose work includes gig posters for Queens of the Stone Age and the Melvins and graces the walls of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) features Jared’s totally now perspective, his innate ability to focus his love of rock/soul/psychedelia through a contemporary lens to create Heavy Glow’s modern classicism, placing the band into the sonic realm shared by QOTSA and Foo Fighters.
HEAVY GLOW:
Jared Mullins – vocals, guitars
St. Judas – drums
Joe Brooks – bass
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